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Sunday, July 29, 2012

PAST: HIGHLIGHTS: Art Reception at the Torpedo Factory in Old Town, Alexandria, VA at noon + Art Talk at the NGA at 2:00pm + Outdoor Art Performance by the Tidal Basin at 6:00pm on SUN, April 7th, Thanks to CultureCapital.com!

Lunchtime - Art Reception at the Torpedo Factory - Old Town, Alexandria, VAFriends Mentor Show Reception 12:00pm
Join the Friends of the Torpedo Factory in the Target Gallery for the exhibition reception honoring the students and their Torpedo Factory artist mentors. Awards will be presented for outstanding works and refreshments will be served.Target Gallery in the Torpedo Factory Art Center
105 North Union St - on the Waterfront

Old Town, Alexandria, VA
Metro: King St and take the free trolley down to the Waterfront or catch any bus from the metro that runs down King St or gets you close to the Waterfront

Barry Bergdoll, The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art, and professor, Columbia University. "The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts were established in 1949 to bring to the people of the United States the results of the best contemporary thought and scholarship bearing upon the subject of the fine arts. In anticipation of high attendance, the six lectures in this series will be video recorded. A screening of the recording will be shown the week after each lecture in the East Building Auditorium at 12:00pm."

National Gallery of Art
East Building Concourse, Auditorium
4th & Constitution Ave, NW
Metro: Judiciary Sq, closest to the East Building

Early Evening - Outdoor Performance by the Tidal Basin
"changeling tree: the forest lies about you"
Presented by DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
6:00pm - 6:45pm
The performance takes place in the Paddle Boat parking lot at Maine Ave. & 15th St. NW.
"changeling tree: the forest lies about you is a continuation of brown's ever-evolving narrative and a direct nod to Japanese Noh theater; which is by tradition tied to nature. As a finale to the National Cherry Blossom Festival, a choreographed procession of two of brown's mythic characters, embodied by dancers Monstah Black and Beasty, will take place just before dusk along the Tidal basin. It is amongst the blossoms, where the heroic myth will come to a ceremonial close in Washington."
The Tidal Basin - Paddle Boat parking lot
Maine Ave. & 15th St, NW
Metro: Smithsonian

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